English Dictionary

hook

/hʊk/

verb

(transitive) To attach a hook to. / (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish). / (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

She carefully hooked the fish onto the line.

意味（1）

(transitive) To attach a hook to.

Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

意味（2）

(transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

意味（3）

(transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

No one seems to want anything but hooked mats now.

意味（4）

(transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.

意味（5）

(transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.

She's only here to try to hook a husband.

意味（6）

(UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.

意味（7）

(transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).

If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.

意味（8）

(usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.

He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.

意味（9）

(cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.

意味（10）

(rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).

意味（11）

(field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)

The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.

意味（12）

(soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.

The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.

意味（13）

(intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.

I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.

意味（14）

(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

意味（15）

(bridge, slang) To finesse.

意味（16）

(transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

意味（17）

(intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.